Beware xargs security holes

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <649 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <john.656921455 at troch> john at sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>>
>>find / -name '#*' -print | xargs patok '.*/#[^/]*' rm -f --
>>
>>where patok elimnates arguments that don't match the pattern.
>>[patok] shouldn't be too hard to write.
>
>find / -name '#*' -print | egrep -v '.*/#[^/]*' | xargs rm -f --

Lose the -v, dimwit.

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